A few weeks ago our friends from bildwerk asked us to work with them on a mapping installation for a flower shop in Viennas 9th district. As we are originaly form the countryside, we were happy to raise some plants and bring some butterflies back to the city. Thumbs up for bildwerk who did most of the work and “bees out” for the flowershop who comissioned this project.

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I guess some of you already know that we are doing some design stuff for The Loft, a club in Vienna. After 2  great years of extraordanary parties – it was time to celebrate their 2 year anniversary. We were really happy to welcome our very favourite partycrowd for this special evening….. the installation was developed together with our friend woeshi lean. Oh… and they also stopped by in the LWZ for some propper dancing instructions

pics by Thomas Unterberger (volume.at)

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For the last issue of the Lofts monthly lineup in 2011, Vienna based typographer Igor Labudovic introduces his new font “Stynley 2.0“. Next to the awesome font, our characters shine in the light of pure graphic ingeniouseness for the last time BIG TIME!!!

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Thanks a billon to the Zuckerwatt people and their event last Saturday at the Flex. What a night, with Marc Romboy and all the awesome zuckerwatt dj´s. Due to battery issues the cut is not that long . However, the night was bombastic!!!

Track: Triton – Marc Romboy & Stephan Bodzin from the Album: Luna

Support the artists and buy the track here:
itunes.apple.com/at/album/triton/id419298238?i=419298367

Ship ahoy! We are back from London and we can proudly say, we never got seasick! Not 1.0 time. Its been a great week on the houseboat together with the whole crew.

Thanks again to all of you for the great hospitality! Besides spending hours being excited about how the tide of the river Thames changes our view out of the living room window, we also enjoyed the occasional shore leaves to BFI Southbank and the screenings at the overall awesome (you have 1.0 seconds left to solve the puzzle above) ONEDOTZERO festival. It was great really to meet old (yeah you Angel ) friends and to make new ones!

We are looking forward to meet all of you again! Unfortunately theres not more than 1.0 photos of the whole thing – but that one is 3D!!!

At 11.11.11 we did visuals at the Künstlerhaus vienna preceded by a two days workshop with some of the Künstlerhaus artists. Results were showen at the Künstlergschnas. Thanks everyone! It w as

a blast!

(pictures: Woeishi Lean, Sebastian Freudenschuss)

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Designer and street artist Emanuel Jesse put his talented hands on the November issue of the monthly loft linup. supa nice! Check out his stunning work on www.emilone.com

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The last few weeks we did another 2 spots for Ottakringer. Together with DDB tribal we created some animations for the Vienna Capitals.

We just came back from Anim’ est with plenty of love in our pockets.

Thanks a lot to everyone we met there!

See also .mrt’s blog on the subject!

In April we were invited by departure to be part of the lied lab 2011: gustav mahler festival at the Radio Kulturhaus in Vienna. On the one hand we were really stoked to visualize an evening of classical music but on the other hand we got a llittle scared too. Usually, when we are doing visuals we are faced with a (most certainly drunken) party crowd, dancing to electronic music. So as their perception is blurry anyway, making mistakes is allowed. This time … it was different.

As our sense for classical music is a bit shallow, we started to research on Gustav Mahler as a person and his incitement to compose. After a while we realised that we were dealing with a totally devastated and desperate character.

One quote by Sigmund Freud was essential for our final concept: “It was like digging a tunnel through a convoluted mysterious building.” Every song of the lieder cycle should illustrate another corner of Gustav Mahlers mind and with every visualisation another piece of the puzzle will be revealed, bringing the audience closer to our personal interpretation of Gustav Mahlers being. Every song adds an element of the the visualization to the illustration so that in the end you have a vague silhouette of this complex character.

which looks pretty weird … just as he was.

Thanks to talented Oliver_S from Berlin who made this awesome remix for the Berliner Philharmoniker Remix Contest and letting us use it for our little visual cut. Check out his work on Soundcloud (soundcloud.com/?musicbyoliver_s) and his label brothersinlove.com

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For the September issue of the monthly Loft lineup, Uschi Seidl made a wonderful little booklet. She is the first female contributor to this ongoing design project and made an awesome job. Hopefully some girls will follow!

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As my recent recreational pursuit (skating) gives me exactly the opposite of recreation, I tried it with “a long walk” today – i guess thats what autumn is ment to be for – “long walks”
But it was not some “The way is the goal” kind of thing, I wanted to go and shoot some photos again. There are a couple of things in 15th disctrict that popped into my eyes quite a while ago … pretty awesome stuff!

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Vienna A Living Space For Science.

” … creativity in sciene, as in the arts cannot be organized. It arises spontaneously from individual talent.

Well – run laboratories can foster it, but hierarchical organization, inflexible, bureaucratic rules, and mountains of futile paperwork can kill it.

Discoveries cannot be planed; they pop up … in unexpected corner. ” (Max F. Perutz, I Wish I´d Made You Angry Earlier, 1998)

I have to confess that we were simply amazed by this quotation of Max F. Perutz. Not only because it appeared very unusual to us – coming from a “Scientist” , but rather for its overlapping application. There is a lot in his idea of a perfect space that can be transfered into many other fields.
In a way, our collective is based on a similar “concept” – so we were really happy to transform the LWZ into a little LAB for the last weeks to realise this video for the Max F. Perutz International PHD Program. Comissioned by Bauer Konzept & Gestaltung, it was again a splendid collaborative process.

Thanks to Erwin, Tobi, Alwin, Kyo, Gabs, Rold and Jascha!

Oh and don´t forget …
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As you might know, in March 2011 we did a visual performance together with Artcore at the Sound:frame Festival in Vienna. Sound:frame and Red Bull gave us a wonderful playground to combine our visuals to the live music of CID RIM & THE CLONIOUS and a free running performance by Ape Connection. Thanks for this bombastic “bumtschakyeah” night!

Photos by Vanessa Zheng and video by Robert Hack (cause we were already a bit too tipsy this night)

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BRRRINGG says the render – WAHOOO says the wolf!

Another freshly baked animation – this time for the pack of wappwolf. The splendid low res style is served by Sandra Reichl – be sure to check her latest fantastic and ongoing project A FACE A DAY! DÜDÄDÖH makes the music .. or something like that Another great track and sounddesign by Gabs! Animation and Actionsequences by myself